Meredith Ostrom Quotes
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There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing. Unlike being in a band or a play or something, I don't have to rely on anyone else but me.
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You may think you're married to a woman, but she's really an overgrown child.
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No one is as murderously 'Islamophobic' as Islamists are.
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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
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We haven't got the money, so we've got to think.
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I am a noncook, although I'm very interested and have a large collection of cookbooks.
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It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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I am always happy to use my song and dance training.
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How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I'm on the right track or that I've started at some place that you're familiar with?
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Mozart's job classification was to write music, which he did for ballets and operas. He got paid to do that, and taught on the side. He wasn't a waiter. He didn't sell mutual funds. Those are all noble professions, but if you want to be a professional composer, then you're writing dramatic music for film and television.
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I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.
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The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.
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That'll be up to an audience when they start to feel that someone else should come in and do it. Personally, I'm hoping that's a long way off.
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See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.
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I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
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Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.
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I can be very messy and disorganized. And I don't throw away anything.
